Visualizing transient Watson-Crick-like mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes

Nature

Volumn 519, Issue 7543, 2015, Pages 315-320

  Kimsey, Isaac J ^a   Petzold, Katja ^b   Sathyamoorthy, Bharathwaj ^a   Stein, Zachary W ^c   Al Hashimi, Hashim M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; DNA; HETERODUPLEX; RNA;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEIC ACID; STABILIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DNA HELIX; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME; IONIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; TAUTOMER; TAUTOMERIZATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATSON CRICK LIKE MISPAIR; BASE PAIRING; CHEMISTRY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; MUTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PROBABILITY; RNA;

EID: 84925047368     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14227     Document Type: Article

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